Re: [SLUG] Involuntary Reboot

From: Ron Youvan (ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Nov 17 2009 - 12:08:32 EST


> My Ubuntu 9.04 box just rebooted all by itself. There had not been a
> power interruption and if there had been I have a UPS. What's up with
> that, are we going Great Satan auto-update?

> I *never* reboot.

   In the reverse order, why do you never reboot?
   Are you out to enrich the power company?

   One possibility it rebooted and a reason to occasionally (regularly) reboot is loss of
data integrity (in RAM) from cosmic radiation. Unless your box uses "error detecting and
correcting" RAM cosmic radiation collisions cause RAM bits to be altered one little bit
here and later a bit there.

-- 
    Ron  KA4INM - I'm proud to be Chuck's pop!
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